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Falling Into the Economic Chasm – NYTimes.com
“The tragedy here is that if voters do turn on Democrats, they will in effect be voting to make things even worse.” —Paul Krugman
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Gene Weingarten – Goodbye, cruel words: English. It’s dead to me.
“Once the most popular major at the nation’s leading colleges and universities, it now often trails more pragmatic disciplines, such as economics, politics, government, and, ironically, “communications,” which increasingly involves learning to write mobile-device-friendly ads for products like Cheez Doodles.”
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Paul Krugman: The Third Depression – NYTimes.com
More classic Krugman:
“It is … the victory of an orthodoxy that has little to do with rational analysis, whose main tenet is that imposing suffering on other people is how you show leadership in tough times.”
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How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? – NYTimes.com
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? – NYTimes.com.
This article is long, but worth the read. It’s a year old, but prescient. Paul Krugman gives a lesson in how economists think and why they missed the boat in predicting the current recession. Fascinating. He quotes John Cochrane saying that high unemployment is good: “We should [...]
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker
Here’s the article, “Covert Operations,” that’s stirring up so much angst. Democracy depends on a watchdog press. Thank god for Jane Mayer and the New Yorker’s courage.
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker.
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Do Some Americans Pay No Taxes? The Contrived Claims That Everyone Must Help Pay for the Government
“What Does it Mean For a Person to Contribute to Society?
The argument that some people in the poorer half of the country are not contributing to fund the government is, therefore, simply incoherent once it is broken down and analyzed in depth. The government makes it possible for a modern economy to function. Some of [...]
Life With a Pouch on the Side – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
“I’ve got a little plastic secret.
I don’t have a colon, and for more than 25 years I’ve worn a pouch on my lower right abdomen to collect waste. I think about the pouch only when I change it or if there’s a problem with it.” By DANA JENNINGS
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Michael Wolff: Sarah Palin, Inc. Has a Problem
“Before this gets out of hand, I want to try to save the word ‘retarded,’ which seems robust and meaningful and evocative of so much that is silly, inept, and illogical. It really does not necessarily besmirch people who are actually retarded. That word, the specifically besmirching word, with cruel connotations, evoking the fifth grade, [...]
Books Are Bad for You
Michael Wolff makes a good point:
“A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium.
I’d like to revise that line: Books are evil.”
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